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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



done on or under a populated hive. The 

 honey must be robbed. Xo trouble to 

 get bees to rob in the fall. The trou- 

 ble is that they will tear down the 

 combs, sometimes chewing it into bits 

 in their eagerness to get it from one 

 another. The thing to do is to have 

 them feel that there is plenty for all ; 

 in other words, not to let them be 

 crowded on the comb. 



There are two ways to accomplish 

 this. First, the Aliller plan. Pile the 

 sections in supers, and allow an en- 

 trance for only one bee at a time. That 

 makes them so slow getting in that 

 tliey will not be crowded upon the 

 combs. If there are man\- supers in 

 the pile, allow an entrance to every 3 

 or 4 supers. 



Second, the B. Taylor plan. This is 

 the exact opposite, apparently, of the 

 Miller plan, for the eflfort is to let the 

 bees have the fullest access to the 

 combs by opening them up and spread- 

 ing them out as much as possible. 



Which plan is better? That de- 

 pends. The ]\Iiller plan may be used 

 with safety at any and all times. The 

 Taylor plan can be safely used only 

 when the number of sections is large 

 in proportion to the number of bees, 

 perhaps as many as ten sections for 

 each colony. 



I prefer to use the Taylor plan when 

 possible, as it makes quicker work. At 



the close of the season there will be 

 some supers with anywhere from one 

 to ten or fifteen sections that have a 

 little honey in each. These will be 

 supers in which the bees have made a 

 start without making much headway. 

 Then there will lie unfinished sections 

 that have l)een taken from the outer 

 rows of supers containing sections 

 mostly filled. These last will be assem- 

 bled in as many supers as will contain 

 them. All the sections to be emptied 

 will be put in the shop cellar. It will 

 take some days to collect them, and the 

 door wil! be kept closed. When all are 

 ready the cellar door is opened, admit- 

 ting the light, and also admitting the 

 bees. Just at first it will seem as if 

 the bees are not going to do much at 

 emptying the sections. But within 24 

 hours the bees are going in and out in 

 a dense stream, gradually thinning down 

 after a day or two of roaring, although 

 some bees will be going in and out for 

 a week or more. Very likely a few 

 sections will be somewhat gnawed, but 

 not enough to amount to much. It is 

 a great convenience to have them in the 

 cellar as compared with stacking them 

 up outdoors. If a rain comes up they 

 are under cover, and they can be left 

 until every section is thoroughly 

 cleaned. 



Marengo, 111. 



A Handy Wheel-Barrow for Carrying Hives of Bees. 



CARL OPSATA. 



^«y«^ V bee-cellar is located in a side 

 «/CC '^'^' about forty rods from the 

 apiary. L'p to last fall I have 

 been carrying my bees in on a hand- 

 barrow, but this fall I had to put the 

 bees in alone. 



To use the hand-barrow was out of 

 the question and to carry in over a 

 hundred lives mostlv 10 fr. tiiat dis- 



tance one at a time in the arms is no 

 fun. especially as it's uphill all the way 

 to my cellar. 



Well, the bees had to be put in and 

 I had to do it, so I just wheeled them 

 in two at a time and I assure you it 

 wasn't a bit heavier nor slower than 

 the old way and what is more it didn't 

 shake the bees up quite so much. The 



